| Show QUEER CHRISTMAS POMPS FOR TINY RAGGED URCHINS richest corporation in the world turns its famous gastronomic tro appliances and royal quarters over once a year to the most desperately hungry ragamuffins Raga muffins it can find and treats them with as elaborate and dignified ceremony as when receiving kings portly lon i don that portion of it known aa the lity the corporation in alic world lends itself to a therewith to celebrate it christinas it would be intensely funny if it were not i dignified and ro kindly celebrations blown in ilie milo railed alic cita tn I 1 I ord mayor who is also an alderman gets a year and spends as in giving and eating pro digiam the other aldermen ind the slie riffi likewise their r chief official functions by banqueting vi every occasion and the ancient k the historic of alii tv hi lily ornamental ami gai f tron oniK government i famous through out t for alie t pread eliat bern provided pro videl therein foi kinga queen premiers and waiting potentate ST KANtE tl in one way the i true to ha at christmas mas time but in another it in t for once ali fity luok on cal and alic tinH tt of bein alir folk of alir da arr iha cit and aniol clial ran bo in all alic had it ay and of rin banquet is no ordinary affair for alic t alv liaa ft to maintain and an unbroken record dating from anva bick Anic rica of oni inon ft UK ra raad pd iii chins from all alic dens that arp bic t of l abc g mill alip ea ind CM klinl i b a roy il viii iclet n niest niost of afar aln ami arp fialo allo ii bv nc of a ll 11 alic in ondon dont to h good 10 i 1111 oil biily liap t mi li j liy mini n my one alc of ohp dr n in abla arr alir noble td raft crad of alip and lie arr nil ri i tv ill cnair linc iliria diann ch to abrin in alic of hplu ion i eoma on alii wk under tin san r lUh pice of Il iiii kirke of the I 1 biou arid alciel ln liable ixida t 1 l 1 l tn vol abc lein hi car ni inual alt 5 hoflock oil abr of heln ber 11 ll hut is a lilile of at noon on li bai day at ahr tio ke of on alif lant la 1 of carh aar alderman sir william atif inar abo alia of aliis banquet and alio raie amt of lie to pay for it turns up with ahr lord ol 01 ali it ilir at alio door of jhc sir willum cordially Corni ally liquids to the lord laor a thick packet of eacel of fontai t ons hitt 0 tn ia to T C the twenty tons of in all foi alif taiti an i dribin up in line alie lord kaoi f liand lo 10 carli inan lii lint and rays of and connally fon nally tt y n r i very F man alic might tanti jait n bood it alii aal it fae ohp lord mayor 11 goofs deal atif but bit of M i neer lot on tbt alio wit nii it 1 ax become afat fad corporation in of alic featon feat nn of the arnt dk akil il 1 liiv ian for and finx olt of mind jl in pil that the chief of tin an t y mant of the I 1 jan the cook at windsor lt a laaron of beef q kiich n t nicety aa thone in the 11 ll yet prave attend a y to alic preparation of the fr K little arroy of the unwashed B alry did ft few geeki ago to preparing ltd ca fm R alard and f Mr vandra blitte ag no turtle g k aire anit the roi 1 cf and atit phin ar enough to make ft mouth water A SIGHT 1 18 ready lo 10 be arved hi 1 alic children chil dien are admitted at t ha bic t at liali 1 bac eat i one anav of ragged of the children have their faces washed in lion the occasion but co much ceremony is not le rigueur ligue ur it would appear eliat every one of the twelve hundred lind been fasting lun harily or otherwise for a day or two before the sights and when this army fall upon it food arc something that ahe infant denien of no lam can hope to compete with sightseers are almost a eager for tickets of admi sion to the galleries whence a view be had of aliis won lious M the children atheni calve t are for invitations to the teat ahe portions served are generous roast naef potatoes cabb JRe milk and chaitt aps pudding enough to cope single hand ed with the appetite of an ordinary abild but second holp ingi are the custom tle guildhall gucu guc U and attempts at a third round leive been known the total make 1000 pound of meal and over pounds of plum pudding calls for alie lapie of halt an hour from the time the banquet ronie on till the begin but fit teen minutes would do a veil at half int five the lord mayor aad his amli folIo Mod bv a gorgeous f city officials begin a solemn bateh up and down between the loiis low of tables it is part of alic game that hi lordship lord hip should lie in full anil fco toH peak ilia crimson robi of tat with enough fur down the front toi B king s ra lii lauw be jeweled sword and lii of office are all in ei den c the lady mayores mayo rei likewise aps to be drewcs in lier best atie iannce f alic fian iii ill ii borne al n belain be liin the imir followed div the fhe riffa and icat but not in hid robe of SIOK t f I 1 now bulled well nigh to are as ft rule con awed at birst by all ahw but billi bmw ama they are induced to riso and pipe tit saie the king As ahe iro cemon boea oi down alie niiles tho lord periodically chants happy nett year to vi little and sinter to which the children hae been instructed to anser back aith due tornia lity n same to you mr and our udy rt lia now become art of the that aliese reson should alternate attilli tor our alderman long live ir william alin roces xion passes on and on lowly up mid down lie for fifteen r minutes that the full idea of the ind jenty inay ink into alie being of even th e and perhaps per to enable a few of the more lusty by dint of lunch clio erin and aria vr ia about to find room for anither an ither mouthful or two afat the are their mo therit arc introduced into the hall to feat on what re maini it in difficult to tall which eight is the more grievous pinched grimy faaea of the children anywhere from three to fousteen fou iteen old or the li aggard ragged ganv of vou iii but none looking aa if acle biad erca leei a child the final ceremony corner alien yet a llord of gocsta in entertained after ahe liac diac eatherd up their f fragin enta the locka of ii gyin circle day after day the auneta of alie anre down for the which liae from alie tables and ahe atone aae lo 10 bl in eniy ta liinus nutter hiff j alie lt number on alii annual program the guildhall its year f wy alun may mr gillium Vil lium treloar alio makes nil ahi quaint entertainment lio Kuble if known all over london a aie children alderman it takes a lot of hustling after acason to aniie the for alie and it look a lot of arx in alie plaice to alie ita could be used without loi of dignity for guenta at ie social extreme from those r alie lie llred school makuk for hi tc culiar ecat aei al dermal treloar inid the LonH layor and lady bould be at aea alie kinlen i a federation of nearly all alie gli chih london decla children most of there w lo 10 aid anor eliat are rath riele laite quee m of ihn angelit attitude to them i n loncle of the poor i that on hem guildhall nn ie hueie f in ll 11 t of the betheen alie among ari he simmion alie sowe club the fintch and league and this name the guild of the ahinga atut london in gen crom evenia it 4 latue and alio I 1 school anion wan organized orga nied nearly aty year ago ha really done a wonderful in improving tl cond sn of the children of he f alums lums nd specially in helping along little cripple it ti lei iding roamn nicil poor mainen in the of their 1 jabi aind ii doing n apoll of vf the guildhall banquet what ith of these societies ami ohp kinga appropriation for din nars there will be scarcely a family among the poorest of poor thi year blat docs not get ft generous helping of pudding the late lord anost of hii spare time in union a powerful federation and the present earl and fo the work although alic presidency of the union lias paired from their family to the marquis of northampton ghesu and many other titled folk vill crowd into alic guildhall on december 31 to BOO the picturesque feast in the under world of london i so deeply concerned just now 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